alec-guimness-films's - Rented List

My Dog Tulip is a funny and heart-warming look at the unique bond that occurs between a dog and it's master. Created by filmmakers Paul and Sandra Fierlinger, My Dog Tulip is a pioneering animated feature, the first to be entirely hand-drawn and painted utilising paperless computer technology.

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Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood is a melting pot of cultures and conflicting views among Jews, Muslims and Christians. Stories inter-weave as we follow the fate of five Ajami residents. 13-year-old Nasri and his older brother live in fear after their uncle foolishly wounds a prominent clan member.

Naive young Palestinian refugee Malek works illegally in Israel to help pay for the surgery that will save his mother. Wealthy Palestinian Binj dreams of a bright future with his Jewish girlfriend. And Jewish policeman Dando seeks revenge when his brother is found murdered in the West Bank. Conflicting religions and faiths finally reach breaking point failing to settle their disputes with diplomacy and never fearing to meet violence with violence.

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With a stellar British cast Made In Dogenham is the inspiring story of the women who made history! Sally Hawkins is Rita O'Grady, a feisty yet warm-hearted worker at the Ford car plant in Dagenham, who leads the revolution for equal pay for women.

Set in the swinging sixties against a stunningly colourful backdrop of beehives and Biba dresses. Made In Dagenham follows the emotional journey of a group of friends including Jaime Winstone and Geraldine James from the factory floor to the House Of Commons. With the help of Union shop steward Bob Hoskins they prove nothing is impossible if you stand up for what you believe, in this heart-warming must-see story!

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Under police guard in hospital, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is charged with murder and awaits the trial that has the country gripped.

Cut off from all communication with the outside world, she must rely on journalist and former lover, Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) to prove her innocence and expose the political cover up that threatens to destroy her freedom. In his way stands a mysterious group who will go to any lengths to keep the shocking truth of their actions a secret.

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Becca and Howie Corbett are a married couple struggling to return to normality after a twist of fate throws their lives into chaos. With their world turned upside down they embark on separate journeys, making choices that threaten to pull them apart.

But as events unfold and new meaning is brought into their lives they must decide whether to allow their personal journeys to bring them back together...

Blue Valentine is a true love story flooded with romantic memories of the courtship between Dean and Cindy. The tale is told in past and present as they recall the episodes that brought them together.

Thorne is dragged back into the nightmares of his past, as he heads up the investigation into a series of horrifying attacks on young women by a killer as sadistic as he is terrifying.

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Inspired by an incredible true story, this epic film of survival against-the-odds tells the story of a group of seven prisoners who escaped from a Soviet gulag in Stalin-era Russia and walked over 4,000 miles across some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world, crossing the Siberian Arctic,

the Gobi desert and the Himalayas before finally arriving in British-ruled India.

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Liu Xing (Liu Ye) is a humble but brilliant Chinese student who arrives at Valley State University and makes a bumpy transition into American life with the help and support of wealthy university patron, Joanna Silver (Meryl Streep).

Before long, Xing joins a select cosmology group under the direction of his hero, the famous cosmologist Professor Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn). The group is working to create a model of the origins of the universe and Xing's enormous talent leads him quickly to become Reiser's protege. But when Xing's obsession with the study of dark matter challenges Prof. Reiser's work, Xing finds his bright future in science shattered. Unable to bear the indignation, Xing returns to campus with a loaded gun...

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Mary and Max chronicles Mary's trip from adolescence to adulthood, and Max's passage from middle to old age and explores a "bond that survives much more than the average friendship's ups-and-downs.

Both hilarious and poignant Mary and Max is a journey that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies come from, obesity, kleptomania, sexual differences, trust, copulating dogs, religious differences, agoraphobia and many more of life's surprises.

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Mick Haller (Matthew Mcconaughey) is a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Towncar.

Having spent most of his career defending petty gutter-variety criminals, he unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime: defending a rich Beverly Hills realtor (Ryan Phillippe) who is accused of attempted rape and murder. However, what appears in the beginning to be straightforward case with a big money pay-off swiftly develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation.

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An elderly lady in her 60's Yang Mija (Yun Junghee) works as a carer for a disabled man and she also raises her grandson alone. She has to endure the onset of Alzheimer's disease and also learns that her grandson was one of the attackers of a junior high school girl that committed suicide.

Through all of tins and to fulfil her lifelong dream of becoming a poet the elderly woman starts to take a poetry class and starts writing...

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Unsuccessful writer Eddie Morra's life is transformed by NZT, a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become the perfect version of himself.

But when Eddie's enhanced abilities attract unwanted attention from the rich and powerful alike, he soon realises they'll stop at nothing to uncover his secret.

Against all odds, a veterinary student (Robert Pattinson) and a beautiful circus performer (Reese Witherspoon) meet and fall in love, but their affair incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband (Christoph Waltz).

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Every year Max (Francois Cluzet), a successful restaurant owner, invites his family and friends to his beautiful beach house. But this year the vacation is not all fun in the sun as each guest raises the veil that for years has covered their true feelings.

Their relationships, convictions and friendships are sorely tested when finally forced to own up to the little white lies they have been telling each other.